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[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c4b3l3r4:
1:So, Iphone, Omnia HD and HTC Dream have a better display than the diamond2?:eek:

2:Can they be more durable than the TD2?:(

3:What conclusions can i take for this?:confused:

4:Do you know if all the new htc devices except the htc dream have the same display?

I'm making a few questions because since my diamond is gone I'm planning to buy the TD2 on the middle of the year.As I live outside the US and in my country this news devices take so long time to come in the market, if I brick a device like this I'm gonna have a huge problem!:mad:HTC Internacional warranty. WOW:eek::eek: I don even want to think about that!
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] massimax:
1: not better, just different (see the difference between capacitive and resistive screens)

2: yes if we speak about iPhone (it has GLASS screen, while every other PDAs has plastic screen)

3: ...

4: EVERY PDA with Windows Mobile has resistive screen
[Touch Diamond2, Pure Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] c4b3l3r4:
Thanks!:D

I found a good article about resistive and capacitive screens, if someone want to see, just take a look here
[General Questions and Answers] Ruby Kuppusamy:
Hi everyone,

im a confused n stuck newbie from malaysia, i bought a HTC TOUCH HD from taiwan, its in chinese, needs to be change to englsih?

is there any possible way, all the HTC ppl has gave up on me.

can anyone help me here?

Thanks & Regards

K.RuBy
[General Questions and Answers] orb3000:
Welcome to the forum

Have a look on Blackstone section and reflash with a ROM in WWE (English) there are plenty of them and better than the original!

Good luck,
[General Questions and Answers] Splintkill:
Anyone can help me? I tried to change theme of Manila2D with M2DC but it wrote "Unable to find HTCHomeSettings.xml or a hh_*file in the selected theme. Unable to apply"

I searched tuto on the web but i can't found HTCHomeSettings in my PPC or any explain for this.

Anyone can help me?

(De preférence en français.)

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] denco7:
You have to unzip the theme files into your M2DC folder, you can't just drop the theme folder into the M2DC folder. What theme are you trying to load ?
[General Questions and Answers] Splintkill:
Oh yeah ... I'm stupid ... Everything is ok. Thanks.
[Touch HD Accessories] haam1978:
has anyone found a case that looks like the one which comes with the Nokia E71 ?

Ireally like it I find it the best easy case to use

here is how it looks like

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GENUINE-ORIGI...ItemQQimsxZ20090416?IMSfp=TL090416111001r6327
[Touch HD Accessories] Ree07:
Check this one out:

http://cgi.ebay.com/B2-EASECASE-Cus...s=66:2|65:16|39:1|240:1318|301:0|293:1|294:50
[Touch HD Accessories] haam1978:
many thanks bro but if there is something cheaper will be better
[Touch HD Accessories] Ree07:
True true. It looks quite good though, and you could even order a custom one with your initials/name on it. I almost bought one myself, but then I thought the price is a little too steep for such case :p

I guess we would just have to keep looking.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] vicious6969:
Why has manila been removed from most if not all of the 6.5 roms?

Am I missing something here? The 'new' interface for win mo 6.5 seems to me to be absolute rubbish as an interface. I have installed XBmod over the top.

What's the point of this new interface? It's limited at best. If you compare it to say the new iphone 3.0 os (I'm a win mo fanboy by the way) it's embarrassing.

Surely TF3d2 is the way to go??
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] dickenz:
Take a look at some of the awesome panels and themes being developed over in 'Development and Hacking' and you'll understand. The themes are rich, customizable and very nice. ibrythill's WM7 one is a great example.

It's actually very flexible and functional. It can house heeeeappps more in those panels than Manila and then people are creating any sorts of plugins. Last night I read about a facebook panel that was just released. There are no facebook tabs for Manila, no 'create your own tab', no twitter tab etc.

I know I possibly made Manila sound bad but it is not by any means. Just a couple of reasons you'd want to try Titanium as a UI.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] vicious6969:
Cool thanks for that, wasn't aware of titanium etc etc will have a further look.

I was just looking at the basic homepage that comes with the roms and was a bit alarmed!

I think something cool should be on out of the box though when the new os comes out. as long as normal phone users dont have to mess about etc.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV ROM Development] Lord_BlackAdder:
Well I suppose you can always put another homescreen like TouchFLO 3D on top of WM6.5. So it is very flexible to have a clean ROM and let users choose what suit them most.

BTW, the built-in kinetic scrolling of the WM6.5 is very good. I hope there would be a version of the TouchDLO 3D without the HTC kinetic scrolling.
[General Topics] Slycarter:
hi,

I have a Glofiish M810, great phone as HTC and eve same problems. in fact on WM6 rom there is no bluetooth DUN service present.

Is there a patch or update that enable it?

I tried the one on this site intended for HTC but it seems not to work.

I think WM6 rom should be the same why it doesn't work.

Please help me.

Thanks
[General Topics] Slycarter:
Is there anyone that can help?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] ftg888:
gone in 8 hours?
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] sumitescp:
I just got it today. and it is already for sale. Android is so crappy compared to WinMO. I dont even know how to sync that thing with a PC
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] gutter:
Sent PM's to both of ya!
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] chrisag92:
would it work with t-mobile??
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] Greendots:
Nightmate. 3 hours with the GPS on and it died. Had to find my way home with blind luck.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] macsbac:
3 hours with a gps on is not to bad. Wifi, bluetooth and GPS are all extremely power hungry and will all kill your battery if left on. This is the same with any device.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] lbcoder:
A brand new battery will not give you much life. You need to use it a while -- after several cycles, it will give you much better results.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] lbcoder:
Obviously, you work for microshaft and your job is to spread lies in order to boost sales on a product that is clearly getting spanked due to extreme inferiority. NOTHING is worse than winmo, and right now, NOTHING is better than android.
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] viw9419:
I get 1.5 days with with WiFi off and 1 day with WiFi on.

about the same as the iPhone, slightly better than the WinMo phones I have owned
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] rhedgehog:
lol.

90% on the nokia battery scale, which is really about 5% in reality....

Honestly, nokia are well known for fecking with their battery indicators. Was doing something similar with the N95 and from it showing only 1 bar missing, it went down to 0 bars in under 30 minutes....

As for this magic, i've been lucky enough to have one since an early FW and HW revision, back in February. Have no problem getting over 1 day on it regularly with the way i use it, but yes, Wi-Fi on, or GPS for any length of time, and it drops quickly. These are power hungry and use the same power, if not more power than talk time, and having more than one on will drain the battery very quickly.

no better and no worse than any other smartphone available at the moment, and it definitely gets better over the first few weeks as a few cycles get into the battery...
[myTouch 3G, Magic General] esepedazogsi:
Hi,

In my case, 2 - 3 days. Details of my HTC magic job;

- 3 or 4 calls every day but short duration , totally, 10 min

- wifi 20 min every day

- play music 10 min in the metro

Nothing else, this is a lowest job for it and in my case, i think the duration is according to this use. Anyway, i have not got any data price and my htc magic has not got too much network traffic, only by wifi.

regards,
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] Snuurtje:
Hey,

im trying to find this, read about it once, but when searching these blackstone forums i cant find it anywhere. I hope someone can point me in the right direction.

In sense of information providing XDA developers is lacking a lot of structure. If there were just an alphabetical list of handy .cab appls people on XDA created at least. Would make searching for apps a whole lot easier.

greetings
[Touch HD Themes and Apps] ASK768:
i think you have this problem because you got the name a bit wrong. its wvgafix

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=455974
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] HMDerek:
If I look around on google, there seem to be several for symbian phones, but none for WM. I'd love to be able to automatically change backgrounds on my today screen. Does anyone know an app?
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] rotastrain:
search for shantz today changer!

its what u want..

Cheers.

Rotastrain
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] HMDerek:
Thanks for the tip!
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] HMDerek:
Hey rotastrain, have you ever tried Shantz on your Xperia? Doesn't seem to do anything at all on mine.
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] rotastrain:
ahhhhhh....i forgot to tell u..i had to fix shantz today changer for the xperia..

You have to first install theme master..its a software you have to buy..:D

It also doesnt work on the xperia.BUT.

when u start theme master and then after that start shantz today changer ..THEN

Magic..

Everything works fine..

Cheers,

Rotastrain..
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] Psy'RaKKa:
Hi HMDerek,

Perhaps you could try this app from Diamond thread "Diamond Background Changer" --> http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=427463

I've installed it and it works flawlessly on my Xperia. Give it a try if you feel so!

If you decide to try it here are 2 tips:

1 - use only *.jpg files

2 - all the letters in the file names must be in lowercase, and I mean all, even the the extension ("jpg")

Regards,

Psy'RaKKa
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] rotastrain:
hey psy rakka,

thanx for the link,

however this changes the tf3d background.-what hm drek was looking for was a app that changes the today screen wallpaper of windows mobile.

hmderek,

i can post a video showing u exactly hw to make shantz today changer!!so u can use it..
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] arena1:
Hi there!

would it be working with spb 3?
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] Psy'RaKKa:
Only TF3D

Hi arena1,

As far as I know it doesn't... It only works on TF3D and it only changes the today bg.

Cheers.

Psy'RaKKa
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] arena1:
Cheers mate!
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] poetryrocksalot:
it works fine without the added software
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] kevor:
I agree with this post.Downloaded and works great even with filename not eing lowercase :) go fetch!
[XPERIA X1 Themes and Apps] slamma:
SPB3 Lifestyle Background changer

I'd like one for SPB3 too. Anyone know of one?
[Touch Pro CDMA] pyraxiate:
Hello everyone,

First off let me start off by saying that I have been here for quite some time, and have had no issues modding / customizing my ATT Fuze ( GSM Model ). Recently, a coworker of mine wanted me to customize his touch pro also. He has the CDMA Verizon variant. It is my understanding that Verizon has crippled the devices GPS Capabilities to force people into using VZNavigator.

My question is this ( And yes ive searched High and low here ). Is there a rom someone has built that is specific to the Verizon variant that already has all of the patches correctly installed? From my understanding, it is a not so fun process that is still in Beta at the moment. I will be unlocking his cell tomorrow and will be installing a ROM..... just not sure which way to go. He likes the way mine is set up ( Using NRG's EnergyRom 2.0 ) and have yet to see a single CDMA Variant that has everything in it that he wants. Shy of trying to cook one myself for him ( Which im still in my learning phases ), Im not sure what way to go.

The key thing is the GPS. He plans to buy TomTom or Igo and so far neither work on his stock rom ( Trial apps )

Might anyone have a any pointers? Maybe someone here is reading this from their VZ Touch pro? :D

Thanks Much,

Wayne
[Touch Pro CDMA] DNak206:
There is really one primary Verizon chef and that is Scott Crosler (sskusers.com), he is purely dedicated for Verizon builds. Another good Verizon ROM I've used is |||bored|||, either way, unlocking the GPS is easy enough once you have a cooked ROM your friend is happy with. For the GPS, search for Verizon GPS Fixv2 (again, thanks to |||bored|||).

These two make our device actually useable, they are God send in every aspect. Best of luck.
[Touch Pro CDMA] hugo87:
^ Agreed. Im using SSK 2.0 rom (Includes Kitchen). Just like stated above lllboredlll GPS is what you want to unlock it. Really fast and stable.
[Touch Pro CDMA] ibmxx187:
I would definately check out ppcgeeks.com

It is mainly CDMA where as xda is more GSM oriented.

Also i have a rom out a 6.5 mobile shell rom, that is made for verizon phones, but works on others
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] KraFT_mk:
I have a huge caller id problem with htc diamond2.

Outlook 2007 and HTC DIamond2.

The problem...

1. My default settings.

My phone numbers are stored without any masks by default in outlook 2007.

Example: Smith, John: +38970333333.

(+389-70-333333 +country code-area code-phone number)

If you dial from another country you will have to dial +38970333333.

After importing all my numbers in HTC D2 contact book the problems started.

Caller ID is not recognizing any incoming number stored by default.

If the incoming number from Smith, John is stored by default as +38970333333 the caller id is only bringing up the short number version 070333333.

Well I was sure that I will fix this with the registry change of the Caller ID match rule.

Caller ID rule: from 8 to 7 (and 6 and 5 .. ) trailing digits for Call ID match.

* HKCU\Control Panel\Phone\CalIidMatch value:7 (and 6 and 5 ... )

Immediately after the restart the I faced the fact that I won’t have any sleep in the next few nights.

2. What I found out later was that the only way for caller ID to work was to have a full number stored but with the zero in the area code included ?!!

So now in Diamond2 phone book ,

Smith, John: +38970333333 /(+389-70-333333 +country code-area code-phone number) is now stored as :

Smith, John: +389070333333 / (+389-070-333333 +country code-full area code-phone number)

This way,

a. the caller id works perfectly;

b. when dialing from the phone book, that extra zero (070) is somehow automatically removed ( I can see that while the phone is dialing the number) and there are no problems;

c. when sending SMS from the phone book, that extra zero (070) is NOT automatically removed so sending SMS from the phonebook is NOT working.

SMS can be send only manually with typing:

- the phone number a in full version without the extra zero +38970333333 or

- the phone number in short version with the zero 070333333.

_________

I travel a lot, and advices like "put your number in short version" won’t work for me.

Why that Caller id match rule is not working?

Same default format (Smith, John: +38970333333. (+389-70-333333 +country code-area code-phone number) worked perfectly with my htc diamond1 with CalIidMatch value 7.

At this moment and after few sleepless nights and lots of hours of reading and digging and hard resets, I am out of ideas.

Please advice.

Thanks,

KraFT
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] Mr-Fly:
Have you tried to save all the phone numbers in this format:

+country (area without zero) local

I have mine all like this and when you use the outlook "form" which you can get by double tapping on the field and put in the data, the phone# will end up like that.
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] kings121:
i think htc have a fix for that problem now
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] kkashwin:
HTC Fix

Hi,

Had the same problem - the fix from this link fixed it...

http://www.htc.com/in/SupportViewNews.aspx?dl_id=673&news_id=257

Have you checked it out already?

--Ashwin
[Touch Diamond2, Pure General] stijnr:
I had weird caller ID problems before.

It turns out this was because the first time I started up my device, I didn't have a SIM in there.

When I did a hard reset with a SIM present (and selected Yes when asked to copy the SIM contacts), everything worked afterwards.
[G1 Android Development] billc.cn:
I've seen a lot of people complaining about not being able to boot after using A2SD for a while and I think it's definitely necessary to make clear the danger in using A2SD and some ways to prevents them.

Do not move /data/data to SD.

You can safely move /data/app and /data/app-private to SD. Be cautions with /data/dalvik-cache. (See below)

Make sure the ext2 partition are mounted with noatime and nodiratime (rom maker's job)

Do regular file system checks (using Linux)

Back up your ext2 partition and redo them regularly

Here're the theories:

(NAND) Flash memory has two serious limitations when used to store frequently changing data: you cannot do random write unless you erase a whole page first and any bit can only be written a limited number of times (typically a couple millions). When one bit in a page is detected to be faulty, you lose the whole page. (More details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Limitations )

Most mobile os vendors overcome this problem by using special file systems, namely yaffs and jffs, which arrange files according to page size and do write operations only when necessary. They also provide journals so hardware faults could be reliably detected and corrected.

EXT2, which is the file system used in A2SD, DO NOT have these features. It may stupidly allow several pages to be erased hundreds of times of just to write some small files into it. Things are made even worse because some fixed part of the file system (inode table and bitmap) has to be written EVERYTIME a file operation is done. The will accelerate the wearing of those pages and when they become inaccessible, you lose the whole file system.

A2SD would work fine if you only move /data/app to it, because the application files are never modified. It is a completely different story for /data/data because the sqlite databases in there are modified almost every other second!! (And I suspect the OS commit them to disk very often to ensure data integrity.)

In addition, android does not have system check tools for ext2, so it will not be able to detect any problem with the file system until it’s too late.

Edit:

I am not sure how frequent the system updates files in dalvik-cache, but I would say you only move it when you are running out of space in /data.

(Also changed title)
[G1 Android Development] knaries2000:
these are very good points. Actually come to think of it we better mount the ext2 partition with noatime. Because right now every read will wear the flash down. flash storage is really not meant for ext2 filesystem.
[G1 Android Development] Dimath:
In JF1.5 build it is mounted with noatime, i believe:

#mount

/dev/mmcblk0p2 on /system/sd type ext2 (rw,noatime,nodiratime,errors=continue)

But I totally agree with the point of the thread /data/data should not be moved to sd. Not that it's only dangerous (as described), I even don't see any advantages of it.
[G1 Android Development] knaries2000:
really. that's good, but I am running haykuro's build right now and it is not mounted with noatime. I will have to change the init script.
[G1 Android Development] bubblesnout:
I'm using JF's 1.5 A2SD build, and I'm pretty certain I moved over /data/data. I didn't really ask myself the question when doing it, but what exactly is stored in /data/data? Is there a command I can run to move it back off the SD card?
[G1 Android Development] Rekna:
Are ext2 and fat the only supported file systems in the android kernel? If not maybe it would be best to move to a wiser file system.
[G1 Android Development] Dimath:
Yeah, why can't we use yaffs etc?
[G1 Android Development] tubaking182:
i don't think most partitioners support yaffs

i know the partition manager on ubuntu 8.10 doesn't
[G1 Android Development] MarcusMaximus04@gmail.com:
Indeed, and I'm fairly sure that's why it hasn't been done. But keep in mind several million write cycles is a heck of a lot and apps only really write their data caches occasionally, so it'll likely be a while before anything bad happens(on the scale of years) so this is slight sensationalism. Actually the term "cache" is a slight misnomer here since it's really just storage the apps use for temporary data. If it were used as some kind of extended RAM or a real cache then I could see problems but with what it's used for it should be a non-issue.
[G1 Android Development] jashsu:
SD cards are a form of removable flash that have their own write controllers. In most cases, the write controllers also perform wear levelling. This means even if a program writes to the same file on the sd repeatedly, each time it writes, it is not writing the same physical location on the flash. The reason for this is because due to the way flash works, entire blocks have to be erased before they can be rewritten. To make writing faster, the memory controller keeps a list of empty blocks that are ready to use. When a file is changed, the entire file with the new changes is written to a new memory block and then the old block with obsolete data is then reset to zeros (data deleted).

That said, I still think A2SD is a red herring that only contributes to newbies spamming these forums.
[G1 Android Development] MarcusMaximus04@gmail.com:
Which is exactly why I made my new method that's able to deal with a lot of user mistakes and can be incorporated into ROMs to make it take almost 0 user effort :)
[G1 Android Development] solca:
yaffs on SD cards can in some common cases invalidate the wear leveling in hardware that SD cards do, as they so the wear leveling in software.

You are simply understimating ROM makers, SD cards are different from the internal flash in that they do auto wear leveling, that's why you can put common filesystems like FAT which have statically placed allocation tables and writes to the same logical sector will always land on very different places in the card every time.

Yes, noatime will help a lot as it will _reduce_ writes to your SD card.

ext2 is not journalled so it will have less writes too than ext3 or any other journalled filesystem.

So ROM makers are already doing a good job, don't understimate them please.
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] veehexx:
im having a huge issue here....

i updated my phone to "RUU_BlackStone_HTC_Europe_1.56.401.0_Radio_52.62.25.34_1.13.25.24_Ship.exe", that went well.

since the phone is provided with orange UK 'tweaks' i had to use USPL to get around the locks.

ok - so, USPL booted, i then ran the above official update.

sucessful flash - or so i thought.

phone reboots, hard reset, and then allow phone to boot. setup wm6.1 as normal and get to the GPS stage - the hardware com port refuses to stay on the com port i select, and just goes back to 'unselected'.

thus, tomtom will not find any gps devices.

so i try to go back and find another rom that will work correctly - i now cant get ANYTHING to flash - i boot to SPL, attempt to flash rom, and phone/flash utility both get as far as 0%. after a short while, the utility comes back to say no comms with the phone. i cant boot to USPL, flash with another rom or anything.

how do i fix this?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] IrfanSEAT:
Can you get your HD into bootloader mode ?
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] alesscam:
Each time a new ROM update

you must perform the procedure again with USPL unlock
[Touch HD Windows Mobile ROM Development] IrfanSEAT:
Now that makes sense i didnt read the post properly lol